ELinks – Browse the Internet on your Konsole

Did you know there is a software that can browse the internet via the konsole ?, there is ELinks small piece of software that can do it. ELinks can render your internet in text mode, so If you feel bored to run the internet via the regular browser, you can use ELinks. ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts. It is quite portable and runs on a variety of platforms.

ELinks Features:

HTTP and Proxy authentication

Persistent HTTP cookies

Support for browser scripting in Perl, Ruby, Lua and GNU Guile

Tabs (though still text mode)

HTML tables and HTML frames

Background download with queueing

Some support for Cascading Style Sheets

Some support for ECMAScript by using Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine

Using ELinks

Now ELinks want you to enter the URL you want to browse, in this example I want to open facebook. So in the URL type the regular facebook address and press the OK Button.

facebook via ELinks

Now the page will loading in Text-Mode, and I entered my credentials to login to my account. Don’t forget to press login after entering your credentials. If there is a warning to post form data, just press YES to continue.

Login to Facebook

And viola, welcome to facebook in text mode. Now let’s try to post a new status.

The status has been posted, as you can see ELinks function like a regular web browser. Wow is that cool isn’t ? So if you want to know more about ELinks, I suggest to to install and try it right now .

That’s all for my post about ELinks, If you have question please leave it on the comment below. I will share another cool application later, so thanks for coming to my blog. Oh maybe you want to visit my other post about cool twitter client.